In 2012, the sagacious Australian instrumental trio Dirty Three are awakening after seven years of inactivity. But that isn't to say Warren Ellis,Jim White, and Mick Turner have sat and idled since releasing their 2005 effort Cinder. While Ellis lent his searing violin work and gutteral, post-industrial guitar squelches to Nick Cave'sBad Seeds and Grinderman, repsectively, White and Turner continued recording moody jams as the Tren Brothers, also lending their rustic virtuousity to the touring lineups and records of artists like Cat Powers, Bill Callahan, and PJ Harvey.

Which brings us to Dirty Three's latest album, Toward the Low Sun. The record is out officially this Tuesday (2/28) via Drag City, and will be supported by a slew of Australian dates throughout March (including the band's first visit to the Sydney Opera House).(Whether Ellis will shave for the fancy gig or not is to be seen). NPR is streaming the full album. Download the first single, "Rising Below" above. The cover art is pictured below.

The band also announced their participation in a premier UK musical event, No Direction Home Festival, a spiritual counterpart to England's End of the Road Festival (which the Dirty Three are also playing this year that was developed by the same creative team. Situated on the fringes of Sherwood Forest, No Direction Home hopes to provide a relatively subdued and intimate alternative to mega-fests like Glastonbury, and features a cinema, literature venue, and various hands-on workshops for invidiuals and families alike in addition to their two sound stages.

But before Dirty Three tackles those English festivals, they're slated to play All Tomorrow's Parties'I'll Be Your Mirror UK event in May, the first of two ATP sets on their schedule. Curated by Mogwai (who just announced their own festival appearance), the London gig will also include performances by Slayer playing the entirety of Reign in Blood, The Afghan Whigs, Melvins, Sleep, Mudhoney, Codeine, and Yuck.

The recently reunited Afghan Whigs will then head to Asbury Park, NJ in September for frontman Greg Dulli's curated I'll Be Your Mirror, with Dirty Three in tow. The Whigs will headline the event, which also features The Roots, Jose Gonzalez, The Antlers, and Sharon Van Etten, among others. These two shows aren't Dirty Three's first foray with ATP, having curated their own lineup in 2007 with Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds headlining. Cave returned the favor with his own 2009 curation, having the trio perform their 1998 Steve Albini-produced LP Ocean Songs at an ATP in Australia. They also played it at ATP NY the same year.

Don't post any dumb fuck retarded misinformation about ATP. If you have any questions, direct them to ME. Also nobody better be a dumbfuck moron and buy tickets for this in advance because they always let people in for free anyway. Whoever says this lineup is going to suck is a retarded nitwit because it's going to rule.

You are an idiot plain and simple. Saturday is certainly not sold out. This round of tickets are gone. They put more and more as the months get closer to ATP. And you can get daily and three day tickets for less than face the week of the show.

If you have no clue what you are talking about then do not make a comment.

1:32 and 1:34, you 2 are the idiots to believe anything ATP says. They said the same thing last year. Oh the Jeff Mangum Friday show was sold out months in advance right? Oh the Jeff Mangum Monday special show sold out right away. And what did they do but put more on sale for both closer to the date. Suddenly tix became available. So shut the fuck up. ATP has never once sold out in Kutshers or last year in Asbury Park.

1:48-Not mad, just laughing at you hard. Sure that must be it what you say. Tons of people months later have pay/CC problems. Months after they are charged for the tickets.
What a dumb motherfucker you are.

1:52-Shhhhh you know what. Let these so called smarties think they know what they are talking about. Let them think Saturday is sold out and more tix won't be put up later. Let them think when promoters like Bowery Presents tells them a show is sold out it really is sold out. That they won't put more tix on sale and have tix available at the door. Better they just remain stupid.

Far as I could tell, 3day pass with the Fri Mangum show were S/O, weekend passes with Sunday Passes were not sold out as the Sunday sales really suffered last year. Sunday Mangum show has tickets on sale for most of the weekend.

Not sure why BV commenters get in such pussy fights over this shit. ATP provides a great concert experience regardless of ticket sales...it seems to not be about ticket sales, and well, that works for me.

Also, I would guess ATP as a whole promoter recoups losses from their very successful shows in London.

2:23- Don't tell me that I'm getting worked up, you brain dead hipster trash know-nothing. My pulse is so slow that I could pass for dead. I'm just sitting here cracking up about how you all think you're so fucking smart. You all probably rent hotel rooms like stupid ass morons when there are plenty of FREE cardboard boxes to sleep in all around Asbury Park. How do you dipshits manage to turn on a computer to write this shit?